“Our
garden neighboring God”
Details
of the correspondence between Elek Gozsdu and Anna Weisz 1906-1915
Runtime: 17 min DV, production year: 2008
Storyline:
In 2001 the Kortárs Publishing House published
the correspondence between Elek Gozsdu
from Banat and Anna Weisz with the title Our
garden neighboring God. The letters that were
sealed for over eighty years could be opened
in 2000 as was requested by Elek Gozsdu and
Anna Weisz. The letters can be read
separately, they can be defined by various timeframes,
but in the whole of the story we find the true
radiation of the existence of these two
persons. Of course, we cannot undertake this,
but a smaller detail, the winter pictures will
take us closer to the book, the correspondence
and these two personalities.
Contributors:
Anna Bánszki
László Ripcó
Music:
Judit Atyimcsev (piano)
Hilda Szécsényi (cello)
Director:
Zoltán Csubrilo
Erika Nadrljanski Tornai
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Szekeres László Foundation,
Subotica
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgc5bd343M&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=29
“The
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 memories in Vojvodina”
Runtime: 29 min DV, production year: 2008
Storyline:
The film of 29 minutes consists of clearly
separable themes that are integrally going together
and make a whole:
1., The chronology of the military events in
Bačka and Banat, presenting locations,
circumstances (combats, battles, assaults,
retaliation).
2., Introduction of the martyrs of Arad who
were born in Vojvodina (Ernő Kiss from Elemir,
Vilmos Lázár from Zrenjanin, Károly
Leiningen-Westerburg from Novi Bečej) and people who
were significant in the combats (e.g. Sándor
Rózsa), introduction of the heroes of our patria,
their lives, their home towns (e.g. Senta,
Sombor, Zrenjanin, Novi Itebej, Srbobran).
3., Cultural history postcard: chronicle on
the vicissitudes monuments of the Hungarian
Revolution of 1848, graves, shrines,
sculptures, other works of art and museum materials,
collections (e.g. the story of the Kossuth
statue in Stara Moravica).
director: Attila Iván
cinematography: Zoltán Csubrilo
editing: Viktor Csendír
reporter: Erika Tornai
screenplay: Károly Pósa
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Szekeres László Foundation,
Subotica
Provincial Secretariat for Regulation,
Administration and National Communities
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7kk7IvPiI&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=4
"
Until The Time Comes…"
Runtime: 25 min, DV, production year: 2008.
Storyline:
The film features an old woman named Ilonka,
who lives in a small village in the outskirts of
Magyarkanizsa. The locals call this place
‘Mosquito Village’. The travellers of the passing
railbus can see only two rows of houses and
most of them stare in surprise and cannot
believe that there are people who live here,
far from the din of the town. It is a small world
where time seems to have stopped, and I think
it has stopped indeed. The village’s only
connection with the outside world is the
railbus that passes two times a day. Ilonka has been
living here for decades- keeping animals and
working on her fields in order to supplement
her little pension,- in this isolated community where time goes by
at a snail’s pace as every
day is the same. Meanwhile the world goes on.
director: Zoltán Csubrilo
cinematography: Zoltán Csubrilo
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Dunaversitas egyesület
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5wWzaYYOE&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=27
“Silence
is needed”
Runtime: 9 minutes, sound mix: CH1, production
year: 2007.
Storyline:
Today, when we want to hear everything, when
our voice is lost in the noise, when we don’t
hear and don’t understand each other. Silence
was always needed, but it’s needed now the
most.
The people of today always speak to someone. They forget to pay attention to
themselves. In silence we meet ourselves and
we can meet God. Both are very hard to reach.
It is so rare to be alone, though we fear
solitude. In silence we hear the word, feel the
thought’s pulse, and we see the world in its
entirety. Silence in itself is no desert, it’s no
aphony. Just like a field, that is silence, it
has thousands, millions of vibrations, movements,
wing beats, motions living in it every minute.
Space is needed. We live our lives between
walls, between buildings. Our sight is blocked,
and we rarely look up. Where the sky coincides with the landscape,
our eyes absorb the
distance and get dizzy into boundless reality.
The sound of wings of birds flying above the
ground can fill the space, and can stop the
time for a moment. The countless number of
flowers, the grass are part of the perfectly
created system that surrounds us. Once when we
get near the endless, timeless life experience
we get close to human and to God. People are
maybe less lonely when they are alone.
director: Erika Tornai and Zoltán Csubriló
cinematography: ZOLTÁN CSUBRILÓ
music: ALFRÉD ASZTALOS
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža (2007)
“I’ll
work as long as I can”
portrait
about József Major, stonemason
Runtime: 20 min, production year: 2007
Storyline:
József Major, stonemason presents all the old
and the new stone cutting techniques that are
or were used by stonemasons.
director: Erika Tornai and Zoltán Csubriló
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mm3XVsxTU&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=26
“Water-reflection”
Portrait
about Bálint Bödő
Runtime: 24 min, production year: 2007
Storyline:
To be from Kanjiža means to be from the bank
of the river Tisa. This Tisa form of existence,
the water, the bank, the river and the
settlement got formed through thousands of years in
a
secret, mystical, real and mythical relation. This is how the river Tisa became
the
expiration, the essential medium for those living
here. Bálint Bödő from Kanjiža is one of
those who can tell the most about the river
Tisa. He grew up on the bank of the river, and
today, even in the ‘90s
he fishes on the riverside every single afternoon.
director: Erika Tornai and Zoltán Csubriló
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
“Who
or what was I”
Runtime: 20 min, Sound mix: CH1, production
year: 2007
Storyline:
Kari is a 27 years old guy from Vojvodina from
an average family. He’s the only child to his
parents (his Hungarian father and
German-Serbian mother). He’s been a heroin addict since
he
was 20.
For two years he’s trying to quit his
addiction in vain. As a last chance he decides to step into
the community – we learn from his father, who
still awaits his son, he tells us his story so far,
the story of his son’s ruined life. The father
tells us that he was working with Kari in the same
company (many times on the same project), but
lately he was not able to do the easiest jobs.
Then he stayed home, isolated from the world,
and his parents struggled with him through 3
months, when the physical withdrawal symptoms
caused severe pain for the person trying
to quit. That’s when he made the decision to
enter the community. In this film I want to
show
how a community can create the circumstances that enable young people to
reconcile
with their life. It is important to emphasize
ideals, the respect towards one’s self and
towards others. I want to record the tiny, but
important flutters, happenings in this
surrounding. At the end of the film, the
chosen person, Kari meets with his parents, who visit
him in the community, and who believe in his
recovery.
director: Attila Iván
screenplay: Attila Iván
cinematography: Jenő Apczi Jr., Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Dunaversitas, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5zlIchG8yI&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=59
"
MAESTRO " /Dan Reisinger in Kanjiza/
Runtime: 34 min, production year: 2007.
Short synopsis:
Dan Reisinger belongs to one of the leading
places on the world list of designers, graphic
artists, fine arts creators.
That prolific, diverse, esteemed artist is
considered to be the founder of design in Israel. For
his friends he is simply Ivan, the artist born
in Magyarkanizsa, who emmigrated to Israel in
1949. He visited his birthtown recently. It
was a fateful return to the birthplace, where the
dedication to art secrets took part long ago.
Faced again with the scenes of his childhood
and youth, with the bank splashed by the
Tisza, the flowery trees in the park, colourful
flowers. The existence came apart, everything
was blazing in its pulsating centre. Dan
Reisinger, otherwise, appeared to be the
master of charming meetings. Following the paths
of his childhood and youth, we peeped into the
parts of the town which were opened only
by the movement of his hand.Only
when you find your home inside yourself, you are able to
create out of it, to meet the world quietly,
wherever you cast a glance.
director: Csilla Fejős, Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Iván Attila
edited by: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Provincial Secretariat for
Education and Culture, Novi Sad
link:
“Nice
melodies (a portrait of Kornél Kurina)”
Runtime: 20 min, Sound mix: CH1+CH2,
production year: 2007
Storyline:
Portrait about Kornél Kurina jazz musician.
The great ones of jazz left behind a
wonderful, deep and true music. In the old, peaceful
Yugoslavia among the jazz musicians was the
Kurina family, their activities prevailed the
musical
life in Kanjiža. Kornél Kurina continues the family tradition, his career
started at the
age of 15 in the family’s band, today he has his own jazz band and as a guest performer he
performs with well-known Hungarian bands. In
the next couple of minutes let’s welcome
Kornél Kurina on stage, who never left the
stage without giving his heart to the audience.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhL5Q9Oh3M4&feature=share&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc
“The
story of photography in Banat”
Runtime: 28 min, Sound mix: CH1+CH2,
production year: 2007.
Storyline:
The message of old photos was best defined by
Bourdieu, French sociologist: “In this society,
which is excited about honor, decency and the
feeling of being respectable, in this closed
world, where in each minute we inescapably
feel the look of others, it is important to give
the most honorable and worthiest picture of
ourselves. The persona gives his/her respect to
the viewer, with politeness, conventionality,
with a controlled act if that’s the demand, to
obey the same conventions and norms.”
In the past couple of years the interest
towards visual arts is increasing, including the old ones, too. At the
beginning of the 21st century, with the proliferation of computers the
visual communication’s significance has grown
in our region. This is indicated also by the
growing number of photo exhibitions. This can
be explained easily, since the visual
communication is direct, speaks for itself.
The old photographers are communicating with us
through these photos. Photography appeared in
this region around the 1840s, but almost till
1950s it was a very expensive hobby. Because
of that the local and the traveling
photographers too only undertook taking family
photos and portraits made in studios that
could easily sell. They did make photos when
it was ordered with a different subjects, or for
the mere pleasure and joy, but that was a
lossmaking hobby. Therefore the studio
photography could only be replaced when the
process photography became cheaper, and
then the photography turned outside to capture
the exterior. This 20-30 minutes long
documentary elaborates the first period of the
photography in Banat (1848-1918), the heroic
age using photos from archives, with the help
of Ferenc Német, art historian and researcher
of Banat.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRHlWRqTNc&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=7
“The
Giulietta Masina of Vojvodina” a portrait of Hermina G. Erdélyi
Runtime: 27 min, Sound mix: CH1+CH2,
production year: 2007
Storyline:
Hermina G. Erdélyi was born in Subotica, she
graduated in 1995 in Novi Sad. She earned a
living in many theatres, groups in Novi Sad,
Budapest, Belgrade and even Krakow. In 1998
she settled in Subotica, and became the member
of the National Theatre Subotica’s
Hungarian ensemble, but she regularly plays in
the Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre, in the
Children’s Theatre Subotica, Hungarian
Courtyard Chamber Theatre in Kanjiža and in the
Urbán András Ensemble.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY),
Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEy0lNWudg&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=39
"
The Beautiful Tisa and Other Matters "
Runtime:9 min, production year: 2006.
Storyline:
The Tisa, the meandering blood-vessel that
weaves a net through everything, is a subject of
centuries old tales, legends and stories. The
film besides the Tisa`s distinctive natural history,
shows
its radiation to the intellectual fields, bringst to the film language the
“spirit” of our
river. The river appears as the setting of the
always changing time in the frame of the
motionless lowland of the Plain that suggests
Eternity.
The Tisa
was and is the constant theme of the XX century`s
artists, especially in the area of
Magyarkanizsa and Zenta. Our film based on the
works of these artists creates an essay
composed with a
unique visuality, in which Art and the Tisa is joined together as an
inseparable whole. Only the unique poetic
phenomena of the flowering of the Tisa is
captured in countless works of art, from the
literature to the fine arts. Recently was held the
event of the Concert on the river of which the
aim was to connect the water and poetry. Our
film,
on the framework of this extraordinarily beautiful event presents the
manifestations of
other branches of art.
Maybe it is not a coincidence that here where
the Tisa is flowering with most loud swishing,
in Magyarkanizsa, was born in the past few
decades the poetry of the Tisa flowering. In the
poems and essays of István Koncz and Ottó
Tolnai, in the drawinds of Tihamér Dobó , that
reminds on the works of great Japanese
drawers.
The film blends the artists experiences, inner
world with the natures scientific approach.
director: Attila Iván
screenplay: Zoltán Bicskei
narrator: Bicskei István
music by: Mezei Kinga, Kovács Ferenc, Benkő
Róbert, Olivier Messianen, Arvo Part, SYNERGIE zenekar
cinematography: Zoltán Csubrilo, Attila Iván
editing: Viktor Csendír
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Provincial Secretariat for
Education and Culture, Novi Sad
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkF3y4Dr5k0&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=17
“The
spirit moves it, silence weaves it: The basket weaver”
Runtime: 26 min, production year: 2006
Storyline:
In Vojvodina, so also in the villages on the
bank of the river Tisa we can still find the feeling
of the past communities, homes, heartfelt
traditions – that required knowledge and
experience, example and practice even today.
These old crafts gain their beauty and truth by
surviving the time. Seizing the final moment,
we give the possibility to save on a filmstrip the
priceless values of the Vojvodina Hungarians
living in the river Tisa’s region.
This is an essay film introducing an old craft
that revives through traditions in the
settlements in Vojvodina, near Tisa. This film
saved the eternal mentality through the
relations between hand and material, observing
everything as a unity, holding it integrally
and feeling it timelessly. This community’s
perspective stayed the same, in its hull of far
affiliation, it still uses old activities even
today. This is the heritage from the depth of time.
Many influences had an effect on the Hungarian
culture, it faces challenges even today. Just
like old crafts. We may ask, will they
survive, and if yes, how. There is nothing more
important than inheriting these professions
and activities, to pass them on through sense
and continue it integrally. With our film we
want to contribute to the process of our
community keeping these traditions in its
memory, making it a value again.
Today there are more and more young people who
take care of this treasure house, because
they gained the sense of caring through breast
milk and care. Not so long ago several dozen
of them started to walk in the footsteps of
these popular masters. When we listen to them
we can see the eye of timelessness, but how
does it look back on us and what is it saying?
The curved rush is still trembling, buzzing
and getting combed between the fingers of a man
who weaved a lot of baskets in the old days.
The confessions of well know old basket
weavers from Martonoš.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Provincial Secretariat for
Legislation, Administration and National Minorities, Novi Sad
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6saUX7kiI&index=49&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc
“The Kárász family in Horgoš”
Runtime: 33 min, production year: 2006
Storyline:
A short film about the long history of the Kárász family, the family that
gave the name of the
Kárász Street in Szeged. The Kárász family
played a great role in the cultural, religious and
political life of Southern Hungary from
the 18th century. Several members of the family had
significant positions in administrations
(deputy lieutenant, chief notary, royal counselor,
etc.). The descendants are still
among us. At the end of the 18th century Miklós Antal Kárász
passed away, the family vault can be
found under the sanctuary of the church in Horgoš. In
the park in front of their
mansion (just like in Szeghalom) they have created an arboretum.
The Kárász family and the locals observe the neglected Kárász Mansion with
worrying
nostalgia, they weep for the old
splendor of the place, but the competent authorities
certainly don’t care about its
restoration. The hope that this significant building, this
decaying value may be saved gave us
the inspiration to make this film, and to recall the
faded, but not forgotten youth of
the older generations, and to show the younger
generations this story about a family
with a history through ages, which hasn’t been talked
about since recently, and which is
an important part of our nationality and humanity, just
like the other heritages from the
past centuries.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM
WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Ministry of Cultural
Heritage, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0su92JExtrE&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=9
“A MASK IS THE BEST FACE?”
Runtime: 26 min, production year: 2005
Storyline:
In this film we try to depict the portrait of Pál Léphaft, caricaturist
from Vojvodina, since his
drawings are not only part of our real
values within our region, but they are also related to
the modern-day European culture.
In this film we want to emphasize that the persona in our
film can put everything in the
archive, the deposit of comedy. This was maybe one of the
reasons for our excitement, to see
what gets our caricaturist excited. Everybody is interested
in his own life and profession –
this was our starting point. Pál Léphaft speaks about his
procedures with enormous empathy, and he
speaks about the experiences, hidden things,
that make a caricature into a
caricature. How good he is in this has been proved already.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM
WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation,
Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7MI5keU-hw&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=3
“The 50 years of cinema” – The
half a century cinema of Kanjiža
Runtime: 53
min, production year: 2005
Storyline:
During making and editing this film, I realized how important it is to talk
about this and to
eternalize the values of our past. Loads
of material and spiritual values of this region have
become the victims of the dust of
oblivion. If we let these material and spiritual values
disappear, we disappear ourselves, too!
The cinema was an important part of our community life that is why we must
eternalize the
memory of our film culture and its
significance while we can for those living here and their
future. The help we’ve got while
making this film proves that our community spirit still exits
and still works, a proof of this
handful of earth, under the feet of the Vojvodina Hungarians.
We, who still live, we hope, and we fight each day with faith for what is
dear and sacred for
us. It’s like the taste of the
first kiss when we close our eyes. We here in Vojvodina should
look after the little we still
have left a lot more. If we don’t care for it, it will get lost, or
someone else will take it.
director: Jenő Apczi Jr.
screenplay: Jenő Apczi Jr
cinematography: Jenő Apczi Jr
produced by: Color Foto Digital, Kanjiža
producer: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation,
Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFKpkCXiLC8&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=45
runtime: 24 min, production
year: 2005.
Storyline:
This documentary, which lasts for 24 minutes,
is based on the poetic opus of Otto Tolnai, the
author from Vojvodina, and takes us to the
spaces, areas and towns which determined the
coarse of the author’s life. Gestures, events
and characters from his life stage, together with
the details of Bačka landscapes, are transformed into a
dreamy panorama. The film strums
the rosary of Tolnai’s verses, evoking the
spirit of the native plain. Genius loci. While reading
this poetry, we sink into the deep of the
described scenes. The necklace of verses reaches
the kaleidoscope, where the vibrant, ever changing
poetic statements twinkle in the
colourful ornament.
director: Csilla Fejős
and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla
Fejős
cast: István Bicskei
narrator: Flóra
Bicskei and István Bicskei
music: WLODZIMIERZ
NAHORNY ÉS MIQUÉU MONTANARO
cinematography: Iván
Attila
editing: Iván Attila
produced by: CINEMA
FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer: CINEMA FILM
WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by:
Provincial Secretariat for Education and Culture, Novi Sad
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArxcMNFO6I&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=5
“On the move“
Runtime: 33 min, production year: 2005
Storyline:
A lyrical portrait about
András Urbán, a young theatre director from Vojvodina. Urbán is our
most sensitive, with József Nagy, one of our most talented theatre persons, the
founder of
AIOWA, director of Woyzeck,
Hamlet, etc. He represents a certain art that is only done
by
those “insane” – grotesque, extremely mad, or even pervert in his
performances. He chose
the harder way, not the safe commercial direction. In this film we get an
insight to his work
processes and artistic perspective.
director: Csilla Fejős
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY),
Kanjiža
producer: CINEMA
FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLYaanH4eQw
“Rainbowsnake”
Runtime: 33 min, production year: 2004
Storyline:
A portrait about István Bicskei actor, member
of the French Sign Theatre. So many high
quality art was created in our little town on
the bank of the river Tisa, in the area of Kanjiža
in Vojvodina.
This time we present the life of István
Bicskei, his “Rainbowsnake”, which he saw in
Australia.
It was carved by indigenous people into cliff,
and they followed it through their life.
Bicskei, or as the people in his homeland
called him – Bütyök (Knobble) and his
rainbowsnake started off from the saline cracks
of the Kanjiža soil to go around the world,
places, stages, people and at the end to
return to the starting point.
director: CSILLA FEJŐS
screenplay: CSILLA FEJŐS
cinematography: ATTILA IVÁN
editing: ATTILA IVÁN
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJyRSvtn0s
“10th
anniversary of the Jazz festival”
Runtime: 50 min, production year: 2004
Storyline:
Every year in September this little town on
the bank of the river Tisa – Kanjiža welcomes the
great musicians from the region and from
abroad. This 50 minutes long documentary
presents the 10 years, the story of the
festival of jazz and improvised music. Music cannot be
described by words. However, if we try to
describe jazz and improvised music, we would say
that it is the storehouse of existence with
fragile and strong elementary human purity,
sincerity, happiness, love, struggle and
rituals.
director: Zoltán Csubriló and Jenő Apczi
cinematography: Zoltán Csubriló
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Provincial Secretariat for
Education and Culture, Novi Sad
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrINiYO8XOo&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=28
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"Emil
Tallián", the world traveler from Novi Kneževac
Runtime: 34 min, year of production: 2004
Storyline:
Only a few people fulfill their dreams. There
was one lucky and special man, who was born in
Novi Kneževac, the legendary chief constable,
Emil Tallián, who fulfilled his dream. His work
and dynamic life was appreciated by many
across the country. His hunting trips however
attracted most of the attention. At first he
was only interested in botany, but later his
passion for hunting took him to far places.
The world traveler chief constable visited
each country in Europe. He usually returned to his
beloved hometown from his hunting trips with
rich pickings, special trophies and exotic
plants. He kept on building and developing his
hometown to become the most beautiful
pearl, an oasis on the Great Hungarian Plain
(Alföld) on seven hectares. Each time he
returned he was celebrated like a hero. He was
loved and appreciated, he wasn’t forgotten
after his death, and a statue was erected in
his honor. To be precise, it was only by accident
that Emil Tallián became famous in his country
and abroad by his exotic hunting trips, by his
hobby.
But he was way more than a hunter, a rich landowner, since he
had a significant role
in the life of Novi Kneževac and the
surrounding region. He was the advocate of healthy
living, the first environmentalist we know of
in Novi Kneževac, he was the creator of town’s
healthy living space. He made landscaping and
tree planting a real movement in Novi
Kneževac and the surrounding region. He
actively took part in founding hospitals,
poorhouses, libraries, reading clubs, and he
also supported the drilling of artesian wells,
establishment
of tree nurseries and model farms. He built the train station in Novi Kneževac
and looked after landscaping, which is some
kind of symbol of his life and frequent travels.
That was the place he started off and returned
to from his travels.
His efforts and works fell into oblivion in
the storms of the 20th century. In the beginning of
the 21st century we bring back the life and
work of the world traveler hunter, and the short
story
of the Tallián family of Novi Kneževac.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-09fvbwGok&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=10
“In
Kosztolányi’s footsteps”
Runtime: 16 min, production year: 2004
Storyline:
József Bogdán straightened up the objects and
documents that ended up in his possession in
accident from the Kosztolányi-legacy, Dezső
Kosztolányi’s rosewood pipe, his son’s Ádám
Kosztolányi’s ruby ring, and tickets, letters,
photos and documents found in a big, dusty,
crumbling cardboard box. How did these relics
become the property of a priest and poet in
Vojvodina? By accident.
Reverent József Bogdán served as a priest in
Vrbica, in Banatsko Aranđelovo, then in Novi
Kneževac, and for the past ten years he served
the month of August in Buda, in the Szent
Gellért Parish. On 20th August 2002, he got an
urgent call from the Szent László Hospital to
visit a seriously ill old woman. The lady was
Mrs. Rózsa Szalai the wife of late Ödön
Mostbacher, and the legal successor of the
Kosztolányi family, when she died, the legacy’s
caregiver became Borbála Ildikó Nagy, the old
ladies niece. She invited the priest the same
year in September to give him these precious
documents.
These personal and intimate events reflect in
József Bogdán’s book’s content and
methodology (Near the Kosztolányi family).
Being a poet himself, in the beginning of the
book he empathizes, he speaks on behalf of
Dezső Kosztolányi, who is taking care of little
Ádám, about some documents, then he dramatizes
a family scene, in his poems he brings
Ádám back to life, just like his nanny Bözsi,
and on behalf of Dezső Kosztolányi he writes a
poem for his 75th birthday, so even though he
died in 1936, in this poem he lives longer, till
March 1960, extending his 50 years of life
with a quarter century. With swindles like this, he
melts the two worlds together, he brings
together the two worlds of two poets, Kosztolányi’s
and Bogdán’s, by making Kosztolányi’s poetry
his own, which then serves as nourishment in
his empathy and thoughts.
director: Csilla Fejős and Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt6Y-LShM0k&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=33
“Needlesticks”
Runtime: 33 min, production year: 2004
Storyline:
A 33 minutes long documentary based on the
poetry of the well-known litterateur from
Vojvodina, Ottó Tolnai, that guides us through
the territories, landscapes of Bačka, to towns,
that determined his life. Ottó Tolnai is one
of the most genuine creators of the
contemporary Hungarian literature. As an
unconventional guide he leads viewers to a world
where his pieces enroot: Kanjiža, Novi Sad, Subotica,
Palić and his home, in the Sandcastle.
Tolnai’s momentums, the venues of his life,
events, figures, elements from this region evolve
into a panorama, introducing us to the poetry
of Tolnai’s determinative experience cycle.
“The Pannonian idyll of my childhood, what
else can be my realm?”
director: Csilla Fejős
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TalKUaol8Ko
"Fireroad"
Runtime: 21 min, production year: 2004
Storyline:
A great writer, Géza Csáth, was also connected
to Kanjiža because of his family relationship.
He used to walk across Járás pusta all the way
to Palics. On the shore of a little lake
“Miracle”, by the springs of the spa medicinal
water, he had a rest for a few times and in the
width of the plain calmed himself. At a midday
Csáth arrives at a strange black square,
surrounded by dry trees, where the countryside
resembles that one on the Moon. There, at
a surrealistic farm
he meets Frigyes, a foolish hermit or perhaps a clairvoyant guardian of our
chaotic world...
Direction: ATTILA IVÁN
Story: GÉZA CSÁTH
Script: ZOLTÁN BICSKEI
Photography: ZOLTÁN CSUBRILO
Editing: VIKTOR CSENDÍR
Music: GIORGIO OCCHIPINTI
Cast: GÁBOR NAGYPÁL, FERENC PÉTER, PÉTER
FODOR
Production: CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP
Distribution: CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP and
CINEMART, Budapest
financed by:
Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation,
Budapest
Provincial Secretariat for Education,
Regulations, Administration and National Minorities, Újvidék
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYL_nhx9BHE
"Opus
About Plain"
Runtime: 13 min, production year: 2003
Storyline:
The productions of Josef Nadj the
dancer-choreographer of Hungarian origin who lives in
France can be categorised by the common
characteristics of play, dance and theatre. His
choreographies are based on the performers’
personal sensibilities and are mostly labeled
with the Pina Bausch’
world inspired dancetheatre. In his creations music and visual arts are
very essential. There is always a central idea
encorporated on stage with the help of music,
movement and visual effects. After Midnight is
the first part of the trilogy titled Apocrif
Codex.He sed that for
him is this place is very important space of Magyarkanizsa, this narrow
space extends from river Tisza to the white
alkaline plain, called Járás.The river as a
meditative place is quite important to Jozef
and its substance itself has a great importance
because of balance.Another
space that is also important is our desert, the white alkaline
plain.It is a
significant challenge for Jozef to digress from the stage and try to build up
and
work out theatre tasks in a different field.
Director: Attila Iván and Zoltán Bicskei
Screenplay: Zoltán Bicskei
music: Vladimir Tarasov
Camera: Attila Iván
Editor: Viktor Csendír
produced by: CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Provincial Secretariat for
Culture Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities, Újvidék
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soGKLNlC848
"Cigonya"
Runtime: 26 min, production year: 2003
Storyline:
Tihamér Dobó, the life and work of the painter
from Kanjiža. Tihamér Dobó was the painter
of the town, of the river Tisa, and the people
living here. Everybody knew him, and loved
him, almost every family guards his paintings.
However, nobody could ease his solitude –
only cafes could make him forget his
loneliness. Experimentation was the main role in art in
the 60s in Vojvodina – Dobó’s, or as they
called him Cigonya’s paintings and graphics were
made in this spirit, among his works we can
find landscapes, still life, portraits.
His works are the symbol of bonding, fidelity
even today in the homes of émigré Vojvodina
Hungarians. Ottó Tolnai, a writer and poet
from Kanjiža was the childhood friend of the
painter. He told us
that wherever he went in the world, visiting people from Kanjiža, he
found Cigonya’s paintings: they took his paintings
from their homeland, like a handful of soil.
Neither a permanent exhibition, nor monograph
preserves the memory of Tihamér Dobó.
This film is only the first step of
documenting his life and art. The collection of paintings and
graphics, and their archive on film was
assisted by art historians. The interviewees are
Cigonya’s friends in Kanjiža, who helped his
evolution and accompanied him in his struggles,
that led him to be a known and acknowledged
artist of the Tisa region. An art historian from
Subotica analyzes Dobó’s painting.
director: Lívia Váradi
screenplay: Lívia Váradi
music: Béla Bartók
cinematography: Attila Iván
editing: Róbert Hornyák
narrator: József Balog
produced by: CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapestlink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6Hv8mXNqc&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=21
“Angel
like little brides”
Runtime: 4 minutes, production of production:
2003
Storyline:
In the old days, nature ruled man’s life, and
not the other way around. Human interventions
in nature and in nature’s processes are the
strongest in our days. Some people predict the
“end of nature”.
Not so long ago, when the river Tisa got
cyanide spill, we thought we can say goodbye to our
dear river. And as if this mystical river of
the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld) felt our grief and
worry, hiding its anger, bloomed enormously
the same year. The same way it bloomed in
June, in Vojvodina, in Kanjiža, where the
tiny, fragile mayflies massively swarm. This magic,
this “unearthly” phenomenon, as they appear
from the embankment or from the sludge,
they shed their skin, they go on their mating
flight, their glass-like, vitrage structure wings
glint,
and immediately their corpse falls down covering the surface of the river.
Million, or
maybe billion mating take place, and million,
billion deaths.
In Kanjiža a rainbow colored mayfly statue is
guarding and preaching this miracle of nature.
Ottó Tolnai, our poet from Kanjiža describes
the blooming of the river Tisa with the following
words: “When we crawled out from the blooming
river, we leaned back stunned on the bank
of the river, and we felt that everything
trembled in us by shivering, the shivering of their
mating, of their death – as if high-voltage
power led to the river, or as if God’s arrow stroked
into the Tisa. That’s a real experience, as
the shivering limpid creatures cover your head,
face, chin, shoulders.”
director: Attila Iván
screenplay: Csilla Fejős
text:
Ottó Tolnai - In Memoriam Tihamér Dobó
music: Hector Berlioz - UN BAL
cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
produced by: CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunx6q6hodk&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=25
“No
legs”
Runtime: 36 min, production year: 2003
Storyline:
Satiric comedy about a vice mayor, who uses
public funding to build a pub instead of a
statue. Everything runs smoothly until the
visit of a curator, who comes to see the
monument. Old Gáspár is also heading that way,
but he arrives home differently than he
expected…
director: Zsombor Újvári
cinematography: Jenő Apczi jr.
edit: Zoltán Csubrilo
production manager: László Vanger
microphone: Dániel Cirok
screenplay: Újvári Zsombor
produced by: CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCa_0qUU74&index=106&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc
“Hoopla
in Quiet Town”
Runtime: 15 min, production year: 2002
Storyline:
Little town, little people with little
problems. Or is it? What can a bag mix-up cause? Will a
cavalier appearing by accident (Csaba Tolnai)
save the mixed-up bag from a petty criminal?
Comedy with a lot of running, with a big rush…
Zsombor Újvári’s debut film, which is a
pioneer among the attempts that made Kanjiža one
of the centers of film production of Vojvodina
Hungarians.
director: Zsombor Újvári
cinematography and editing: Zoltán Csubrilo
narrator: Csendír Viktor
produced by: CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
producer:
CINEMA FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51hmgJpW0w8&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=105
“The
Monkey Island”
Runtime: 50 min, production year: 2002.
Storyline:
The Monkey Island is a
50 minutes long film that takes place on a naturally formed island on
the river Tisa, the film deals with real
events in three reports. The film is based on these
report topics. Four youngsters go through the
events that the reports deal with. And strange
stories start to evolve…
Director: Zoltán Csubriló, Attila Iván and
Ágnes Czérna
Screenplay: Ágnes Czérna
Cinematography: Zoltán Csubriló and Attila
Iván
Editor: Zoltán Csubriló
Produced by: CINEMAFILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
Producer: CINEMAFILM WORKSHOP (CINEMA
FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
Financed by: Illyés Foundation, Budapest
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsw5gJWHHIc&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=34
"The
prayer of Adorjan"
Runtime: 13,30 min, Sound mix: CH1, production
year: 1995.
Storyline:
Adorjan is one of the oldest settlements of
Bačka, which is mentioned in documents dating
back
to 1198 as claimed by the newest researches, and this means the settlement is
800
years old, its first name was Adryan, and it
belonged to the Bodrog County on the Tisa part.
At that time the village consisted of two
independent parts: Upper and Lower Adorjan. In the
beginning of 1400s it had several monasteries
and churches (Saint Martin, Saint George,
Saint Nicholas, Blessed Virgin).
During the Ottoman rule, the area depopulated,
then for a short period it was populated
again. The repeatedly depopulated heath was
appended to Kanjiža.
The current village has a history of about 150
years. In 1858 the Church agencies in Kanjiža
built a chapel near to the river Tisa, in a
place where 60 houses were built. Later streets
developed around that small church in
northern, southern and western directions, and in
1884 it had 8 streets. In 1944 Tito’s
partisans killed the whole of the male population of the
village. The victims were later declared to be
war criminals, their belongings were seized,
their relatives were sealed. THE PRAYER OF
ADORJAN is for them.
This film was produced by “Ozoray Árpád”
Hungarian Cultural Association’s video group
within the framework of the Local History Camp
in Kanjiža.
Group leader: Zoltán Bicskei
Cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
Producer and copyright holder: CINEMA
FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O4V5lsIGE&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=14
“Aracs
Church”
Runtime: 9,30 min, production year: 1996.
Storyline:
On the territory of the Serbian Banat, between
Novi Bečej and Bašaid lie the monument-like
ruins of a brick building. The ruins are the
remains of a monastery church that was named
after the settlement Aracs. The church’s
western wall, the sanctuary and the attached
northern nave with two arcades and the tower
remained in their original condition. After the
excavations in the 1970’s, the ruin was
amended keeping its ruin status. The church was
built in the 13th century’s first third,
probably replacing another church. The fate of the
building
was sealed by the Ottoman troops in the 16th century. The ruins were rescued
from
total devastation by the depopulation of the
region and by the ruin cult of the 19th century
and the new findings of the art history and
archeology sciences. The survival of
these ruins
is
the result of preservation works.
The Aracs Church was again recognized by the
Hungarians of Vojvodina in the 1990’s, and
gradually it became their symbol and cult
memorial.
This
film was produced by “Ozoray Árpád” Hungarian Cultural Association’s video
group
within the framework of the Local History Camp
in Kanjiža.
Group leader: Zoltán Bicskei
Cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
Producer and copyright holder: CINEMA
FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHBHtzZhtXw&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=19
“The
shepherd”
Runtime: 16,30 min, Sound mix: CH1, production
year: 1995
Storyline:
In the old days, farmers liked to keep sheep
for domestic use. Sheep-breeding was mostly
common where the soil had a sodic nature, so
where the grass was low and could not be
utilized by other animals as much.
Sheep-breeding on the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld)
shows a decline in the last couple of years,
due to the low wool prices and poor pastures.
Close to Trešnjevac lives Béla, the Shepherd.
He spoke to us about this profession.
This film was produced by “Ozoray Árpád”
Hungarian Cultural Association’s video group
within the framework of the Local History Camp
in Kanjiža.
Group leader: Zoltán Bicskei
Cinematography and editing: Attila Iván
Producer and copyright holder: CINEMA
FILMWORKSHOP (CINEMA FILMMŰHELY), Kanjiža
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsC6peYpxMA&list=PL68JnQbp7JJJC1K4RT9QYycSe9Qw0siBc&index=20